Transcript Catalysing Monitoring, Verification & Enforcement Best

Catalysing Monitoring, Verification & Enforcement
Best Practices Exchange and Building Compliance
Capacity in the APEC Region
Chris Evans
In partnership with
Project Overview
EWG12 2013A: Catalysing Monitoring, Verification & Enforcement Best
Practices Exchange and Building Compliance Capacity in the APEC Region.
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Objective:
Identify best practices for verification testing and create a MV&E
Network in the Asia-Pacific region to facilitate continuous information
sharing and partnership development.
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Tasks:
o Assessment of testing capacity in the APEC region and identify
cost-effective options for collaboration
o APEC network for MV&E authorities
o Compliance best practice workshop
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Project supported by:
Australian Department of Industry, New Zealand Energy Efficiency and
Conservation Authority, CLASP, Copper Alliance, Underwriter
Laboratory
Presentation overview: Networking and
Coordination Experiences from the EU
• Outline of the EU’s regulatory framework for energy
efficiency of products
• The current challenges for market surveillance in the EU
• Current coordination initiatives in the EU
• The direction of travel for coordinated MV&E in the EU
• What of the lessons learnt from the coordinated programs be
transferred to APEC?
EU Regulatory Framework
• EU consists of 28 Member States (MS)
• All MS have to adopt the same Regulations:
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Energy Labelling Directive – since 1992
ErP Directive (for MEPS) – since 2005
• BUT, each MS is responsible for managing its own
market surveillance
Current challenges for
market surveillance in the EU
…even though it has been 20+ years since the introduction of the first of these Regulations
Current challenges:
• Huge inconsistencies between the approaches taken by each
MS
• Non-specialist (sometimes local, provincial) departments are
often given responsibility for market surveillance
• Lack of recognition of the specialist skills necessary
• Insufficient or (even near zero) budgets assigned for MV&E
EU’s Actions for Improving MV&E
• It took the EU more than 15 years
before it began to take action to improve MV&E
• But, as responsibilities rest with the individual MS,
this could only be accomplished through
persuasion, not coercion
• Current market surveillance actions in Europe:
o ADCOs (Administrative Cooperation for Market Surveillance group)
o ECOPLIANT
o PROSAFE (Product Safety Enforcement Forum of Europe)
The ADCOs:
the strategic approach
• ADCO – short for ADministrative COoperation for
Market Surveillance group
• Mission: Aiding market surveillance authorities to exchange
experiences, co-operate in testing of products, publish test results
and discuss any matter related to market surveillance practices for
a better implementation of the Energy Labeling Directive.
• Meetings & Participants:
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Twice yearly short (typ. 1 day) meeting
Meeting open to market surveillance officials from all MS
(approx 60% of MS usually attend)
Activity funding:
the non-strategic approach
• Annual awards of funding made available to support
trans-EU market surveillance activities from 2008
• 66% cash funding from EU, remainder as contributionin-kind (typically, staff time)
• Opportunities were initially only taken up by other
bodies such as manufacturer trade associations and
NGOs
• No significant involvement of market surveillance
authorities until the ECOPLIANT program
ECOPLIANT
This is the first (and, currently, the only) of the annually
funded activities that involve coordination of market
surveillance authorities working in the energy sector.
Mission:
Deliver the economic and
environmental benefits of the
Ecodesign Directive 2009/125/EC by
strengthening market surveillance
and so increasing levels of
compliance across the Single Market.
Details at www.ecopliant.eu
ECOPLIANT
• Authorities from 10 MS working together
• Activity streams (“work packages”):
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Establishing Best Practice
Exercise in Coordinated Monitoring, Verification and
EnforcementJoint testing of products
Sharing Data between MS
Training tools
Communication and dissemination
• 3 year program finishing 2014
Other EU examples of
coordinated market surveillance
• Joint Actions involving multiple MS,
comprising programs similar to
ECOPLIANT (but for the safety of
products) have been operated by the
organization PROSAFE since 2005
• Similar funding basis (All “cash” comes from (66%)
funding by EU)
• Majority of EU MS take part in some way
PROSAFE’s Joint Action Structure
• Project Leadership provided by MS
• Day-to-day administration, coordination and financial
management provided by PROSAFE
• Working program (collective sampling and testing program
etc.) made with participants from MS
• Meet together 6 times in about 2 years
• Testing coordinated by PROSAFE
• MS discuss results and agree enforcement actions (which
they carry out)
EU’s direction of travel for
improved coordination of MV&E
• Centralised coordination of MV&E in product safety is
rapidly emerging in the EU:
Each MS now required to submit annual plans
o “Market Surveillance Package” requiring a “…more cooperative
system of market surveillance across the EU” announced by European
Commission
o Multi-annual funding now provided for Joint Actions
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• It is possible that MV&E for energy efficiency will follow
a similar route in a few years…
• Meantime, annual funding (≈$2.5m) has been
earmarked for energy efficiency MV&E Joint Actions
involving the authorities in the EU MS
Lessons Learned from
EU’s MV&E Initiatives
• What works well in Europe?
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Collective (sampling and) testing program
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Exchange of experience between MS
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Adoption of Best Practices by MS
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Influence on improving test standards
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Corrective actions
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Impact on entire regional market
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“Soft” benefits for MS staff
 increased confidence,
 +ve influence on departmental culture etc.
Could Europe’s experiences be
transferred to APEC?
• Similarities between EU and APEC
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Market surveillance activities are implemented at the national
level
Maturity of market surveillance activities and S&L programs
varies across economies
Many common products are traded within the region, such as
lighting products, TVs, computers, etc. Economies could
benefit from sharing market and testing intelligence about
common products.
Learning from European experiences from coordinating market surveillance
activities, some of these lessons could be replicated to APEC.
Proposed approach
for coordinated APEC MV&E activities
• A regional MV&E Network, which allows market surveillance
authorities and practitioners to share and discuss current
practices on a regular basis, is the first step working
towards the goals of regional coordinated MV&E activities.
• Taking small steps towards regional coordination:
Step 4
Step 3
Step 2
Step1
Establish
economies’
willingness to
participate and
identify their
needs and funding
sources
Establish regular
compliance
information
exchange &
identification of
best practices
Establish bilateral
or multilateral
MOUs on sharing
compliance testing
information
Develop formal,
regional
coordination of
market
surveillance
activities, e.g.
testing
Benefits of the APEC MV&E Network
• Systematic and coordinated exchange of experiences
and best practices
• Opportunity to develop bilateral or multilateral
agreements or cooperation programs for capacity
building
• Enhance mutual understanding of issues, challenges
• Discuss potential MRAs and establishment of an alert
system
• Synergize resources and efforts to developing new
standards, adopting international standards,
harmonizing standards
Thank you!
Chris Evans
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